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Burnout Drove Me to Quit My Job as a Nonprofit CEO

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Two years ago I quit my nonprofit CEO job. I’ve just had the two most productive years of my career.

(Illustration by iStock/Nuthawut Somsuk) I kept count. In 11 years, as CEO of a mid-sized sustainability nonprofit, I planned and attended 55 consecutive board meetings. I planned or attended another 243 myriad committee meetings (Finance and Administration, Development, Programs, Executive Committee, Governance Committee, and Councilor's meetings). Is there such a thing as being too well governed? I once calculated that staff time devoted to just one board meeting cost $17,688.48 (in 2019 dollars). Was my job to figure out how to solve the global sustainability challenge or only to keep 20 bo

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